2023 Farmers Market Preps For Mother’s Day Opening
With the coming of Mother’s Day comes also the siren song of the Farmers Market. It is fitting that the market should bring the bounty of spring’s renewal to Greenbelt on the day that mothers – historically the nurturers of family – are celebrated. The new season began for volunteers with a recent afternoon celebration […]
Council Debates Trees and Trails: Talks Trees, Roots and Leaves
The Greenbelt City Council meeting of Tuesday, March 28 (apart from the budget, which is dealt with in a separate story), was dominated by Greenbelt’s trees, which is appropriate as Greenbelt is a designated Tree City and April is the month of Arbor Day. Charles Jackman, representing the city’s volunteer Advisory Committee on Trees, thanked […]
Council Reschedules Charter Meeting, Supports Police Tech
The Greenbelt City Council meeting on February 27 was short but informative. In attendance were Mayor Emmett Jordan and Councilmembers Judith Davis, Colin Byrd, Silke Pope and Rodney Roberts. A discussion with School Board Member Jonathan Briggs is in a separate story on page 7. Charter Amendment Due to an omission by the city from […]
Bring Valentine Love Notes To the Greenbelt Co-op Store
The opportunity to do a little something for world love and peace arises again this year as the News Review launches Valentine Love Notes 2023 to burst forth in the issue of February 9. Take a look at last year’s outpouring of love and humor at greenbeltnewsreview.com/issues/GNR20220210.pdf. We Love You, Co-op New this year, a […]
A Look Back at 2022
The News Review presents highlights from last year’s news stories. The reviews were prepared by Anna Bedford-Dillow, Deb Daniel, Jon Gardner, Amy Hansen, Cathie Meetre, Diane Oberg, Lois Rosado, Melissa Sites and Gloria Walters-Flowers. Covid Infections Increase, Impacts Decline Covid-19 in the U.S. was about 22 months old as 2022 began. Remarkably, by then, vaccines […]
2021 Election Survey Results Are Impacted by Covid Effects
In its meeting of November 28, the Greenbelt City Council discussed the results of the Election 2021 Community Questionnaire. Interim Assistant City Manager Debi Sandlin presented the results. The outcome closest to the News Review’s heart was that the favorite pathway for residents to receive city news was this newspaper. It was more popular than […]
Windsor Green Needs Carriers After Disruption in Delivery
Hopefully, Windsor Green residents are reading this in a newspaper that just arrived on their doorstep. A few weeks ago, door-to-door deliveries to the condominium townhouse community abruptly stopped when the carrier who had delivered them for almost 20 years resigned the day before publication. Because this carrier worked for the Home Owners Association (HOA), […]
Cooperative Roots Run Deep For GHI and News Review
In this third episode of our Co-op Month story, the largest co-op in Greenbelt (or at least the one with the most square-footage) and the only worker cooperative get their share of the limelight. Greenbelt Homes, Inc. GHI is a large cooperative housing organization (though dwarfed in size by the 35-building, 15,000-family behemoth in […]
Greenbelt’s Consumer Co-ops Are Crucial to Local Lifestyles
Every cooperative organization in Greenbelt and elsewhere is governed by a board and any member can run for election to it – each is a grass-roots democracy. Decisions are made by the board and the management carries out those decisions. Most local co-ops exist through the determined efforts of a small number of residents who […]
Do Greenbelt Road Bike Lanes Add to City’s Bike Friendliness?
Cyclists and drivers be warned. The Maryland State Highway Administration, apparently without consultation with the city, has painted bike lanes on Greenbelt Road heading west from the intersection with Kenilworth Avenue. They run from the intersection, past Dora Kennedy French Immersion School, the school bus lot and the first two entrances to Beltway Plaza. The […]